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Pinterest is an extremely important network for your brand to be on, especially if you value online purchases. The network’s shoppers spend significantly more per checkout, averaging between $140–$180 per order compared with $80 and $60 orders for Facebook and Twitter shoppers, respectively. Yet you could be missing out on reaching prospective customers on the network because of major errors you aren’t aware of.
Below are three common mistakes you might be making that are causing customers to pass you by. If you are a Pinterest user, read and sympathize, because you definitely know the feeling. And if you’re a marketer, take note and don’t be the cause of such frustration...
As we’ve discussed before, Pinterest can be an excellent platform for all kinds of companies to market their brand in a unique way. However, sometimes, developing a good Pinterest strategy can be tough. To help on your endeavor, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of 32 “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for your Pinterest marketing strategy....
Are you taking advantage of the Pinterest tools available to grow your presence on Pinterest?
Did you know that if you get traffic referred from Pinterest it is much more likely to convert than traffic from other channels such as Facebook?
Here’s a report from Shareaholic (a social sharing tool) which shows the average percentage of referral traffic publishers get from different social networks. Last September, the referral traffic to publishers from Pinterest made up 3.68% of the traffic from all social networks, and this is growing....
Kahlua was brand new to Pinterest but the most recent holiday campaign resulted in some long-tail success, including getting consumers to think of Kahlua in a whole new way.
When it came to holiday preparation, Pinterest became a big stress reliever. And no wonder, right? There are so many recipes and other DIY solutions available on the site. For Kahlua, this was the perfect time to run a Pinterest-based campaign and build brand awareness.
The campaign was a sweepstakes wherein followers were entered by pinning their favorite Kahlua inspired recipe. For a brand so new to Pinterest, the results were pretty astounding: 16,000 new email subscribers, 3,800 new Pinterest followers — up from 267 the previous month — and more than 10,000 contest related pins....
You know there’s something special about Pinterest, but you’re not quite sure how to get involved or to use it to its maximum effect.Join the club!
Pinterest boasts 70 million users, and 80% of them are females, predominantly between the ages of 25 and 54. If that’s your preferred demographic, you can’t afford to not be in on Pinterest.
The good news? You can have all the benefits of Pinterest with only as much hassle as you want. Here are three ways to get involve and build your brand depending on how active you’d like to be...
Brand new content marketing opportunities on Pinterest. Five million articles are pinned each and every day, according to Pinterest. This segment of readers has never really been targeted by the site known for its glamour shots of food, fashion and crafts. That changes today with the introduction of Article Pins, as revealed in a blog post published on the company’s website....
Article pins join movie, recipe, and product pins as part of the Rich Pin family. Articles will now have more information right on the pin, specifically the headline, author, story description and link.As a marketer, this now offers new opportunities to keep users interacting with article content on sites longer. While Infographics have been wildly successful on Pinterest, the addition of article pins will open up article sharing by a number of new publishing sources.
Adding article pin tags to your sites can allow your blogs, releases or article content to last longer and get shared to an even wider net than before on Pinterest.
Simply put, we have come a long way from simply pinning a headline and a photo.If you’re a business on Pinterest, here’s how to start using rich article pins...
Would you like to get a hold of the freshest and best social media and marketing tips on Pinterest?
There are a lot of wonderful people and businesses who share helpful social media tips on Pinterest. Following them will help you get a hold of the latest and best content which can help you stay up-to-date and find the latest marketing tips to promote your business.
I have compiled a list that consists of people (profiles) and businesses (pages) you must follow on Pinterest to obtain some great content on marketing. I have also included some Pinterest boards and a few blogs. Check them out below…
Pinterest is a lifestyle searching tool for millions of people. People go on there with excited eyes to look for amazing recipes to cook for dinner that weekend, find ways to dress to the tens for a special date, or find creative educational materials to teach children with. Millions of users turn to Pinterest to enhance their lifestyle. And they are doing so by using the search function on Pinterest. Here’s a fun fact. Did you know that Google has a search engine just for recipes? It’s been around for years, but almost nobody I know uses it. Instead, most people I know automatically go to Pinterest if they want to find recipes to try out. That’s not the only reason Pinterest is better than Google. Here are 5 reasons why Pinterest’s search engine is better than Google....
Via Antonino Militello
It’s crucial for brands to understand whether their time spent on any social network is generating results. The number of followers you have is important, but it shouldn’t be the final arbiter of your Pinterest content strategy.
Consistently measuring your activity on the platform will help you identify the types of content that resonate the most with your target audience. It will also help you increase visits to your website, and generate leads and sales.How to gain access to your Pinterest account’s analytics
Complete instructions — including a video walk-through — for setting up Pinterest for Business and tapping your analytics can be found in my post, Use Pinterest Web Analytics to Jumpstart Your Social Media Marketing.
Pinterest metrics that brand marketers should monitor
You need to determine which of the Pinterest metrics below are most important to you given your marketing objectives. There are many tools available that enable you to track some or all of these metrics, including Google Analytics, Pinalytics, Cyfe, ShareRoot, Curalate, PinReach, and WordPress app WP Pinner. Keep the infographic below on hand to help you get going....
The image-driven network's meteoric rise in only a few years shows the site is more than just a pretty community for people interested in fashion and lifestyle: Marketers are all over Pinterest’s lead-generation aspects, and online hits on products from the site have proved a marketing sensation. According to a study by Shareaholic, the site drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined.
But marketers still struggle to define what makes for a successful Pinterest content strategy--and what does not. Based on my experience with Pinterest analytics and with the support of Pinterest-savvy folks at ShareRoot, I have come up with a list of metrics that marketers should pay attention to when it comes to this social network. Below, you'll find a helpful infographic that lays all the data out....
...PInterest says that today, there are now tens of millions of product pins on its site, and early results show that these are generating higher clickthrough rates to the e-commerce sites versus regular pins.
The company has said that this year’s focus is on bringing more value to the pins users are saving on the site, not only with richer pins, but also tools for businesses including also improved Pin It buttons which now work in mobile apps, widget builders, and even analytics.
With the debut of price alerting, the company is challenging several startups which help consumers figure out when it is the right time to buy. Some of those are Decide.com, whose focus is more on consumer electronics and larger purchases for the home, plus recently launched Nifti, and even a Pinterest for price drops, Clipix, as well as a slew of older tools for price alerting and tracking sales. More generally, though, this also puts Pinterest up against other social product aggregators like Fancy or Wanelo, the former which has always been more of an actionable, shoppable feed of products, while the other is more focused on making it easier to find what’s popular at your favorite stores....
With 25 million members and growing, Pinterest has grown from a niche curation platform to a formidable presence among major social media networks. It may not have the massive membership of Facebook, but the network’s engagement rate is staggering: users spend more time on Pinterest than Google+, LinkedIn, or Twitter combined.
It’s a referral traffic powerhouse, and many Pinterest users view the network as a tool for discovering products to purchase. However, is the network a viable tool to promote content in the B2B realm? Sure, but it’s a bit harder. Your company can stand out on the visually-driven network where pins of products with prices reign supreme, but it requires some ingenuity and effort. We’ve curated some of the brightest ideas on how you can develop a Pinterest for business presence to be reckoned with....
Earlier this month, we learned Better Homes and Gardens ranked in the top five brands for Pinterest boards with the most repins, likes and comments. Here's how they did it.... According to Better Homes and Gardens digital editorial manager Kaelin Zawilinski, BHG started growing their Pinterest audience early on when a few team members received beta Pinterest accounts. Employees from both the print and digital side of the magazine formed an internal group that led the charge to get BHG on Pinterest. “We knew it was a good fit for the brand,” said Zawilinski. As the digital editorial manager, Zawilinski believes BHG’s brand is always evolving and focused on growing among people and age ranges. “It’s all about creating the place where she [the reader] lives. It’s about the home and family she creates there,” said Zawilinksi, “It’s not only her mom’s magazine anymore, it’s her magazine.” ...“It all comes down to our content,” said Zawilinski, “It’s the type of content that really works well on Pinterest, it’s all very pin-able.”...
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A complete list of the data and science behind the best Pinterest marketing tips and techniques - ideal images, best posting times, top categories, and more...
In our experience, there is a growing interest in Pinterest marketing, Pinterest research, Pinterest stats and tips. So, here it all is. I found some really interesting data and science on creating the perfect pin, gaining the most repins and followers, understanding the Pinterest mindset, and much more.
Ready to go? Let’s start right off with a whopper of a stat.
More adults use Pinterest than they do Twitter
Do you have a Twitter marketing strategy? I imagine you do. Could you be reaching more people on Pinterest? As of this year, yes....
Remember, Pinterest strategies are all about driving traffic back to your website. But if your visual content stinks, or if your website is broken, you won’t get any traffic from Pinterest.
Here are 12 tips for making your website more pinnable...
Pinterest updated its Acceptable Use Policy, condemning users who pay others to follow them or re-pin their images.
If you want to build your following on Pinterest, there's no easy shortcut.
That's the message Pinterest sent to users after the company updated itsAcceptable Use Policy late last week. The subtle changes to the policy now condemn users who pay others to follow them or re-pin their images. In other words, users can't buy new followers or shares.
"We recently updated our Acceptable Use Policy to simplify language and clarify our stance on a few things," a Pinterest spokesperson said in a statement given to Mashable. "We want Pinterest to be a place where people can be authentic and share the things that interest them most, so we now prohibit paying per Pin or follow."...
Pinterest's popularity in the U.S. has surged in the last year, particularly among women, according to a new study....
The social bookmarking service is now used by more than one-fifth (21%) of American adults, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a survey of U.S. social networking habits from Pew Research. That puts Pinterest slightly ahead of Twitter and Instagram, though all three are well behind Facebook.
Pew's data suggests that Pinterest has experienced strong growth among women in particular. One-third of U.S. women now use Pinterest, up from 25% as reported in a similar study in February. Just 8% of men use Pinterest, though that's up from 5% previously...
So now, if you're a brand that wants to take advantage of Pinterest but finds original visual content too high a resource investment for you to make, you don't have to be left out of the Pinterest game. You can pin, say ... those awesome blog articles you're always writing!
The article pins will now include critical information in a more prominent fashion that helps your written content get traction, including - Story Headline - Author Name - Description of the Story (like your meta description) - Source URL
Now you might be saying to yourself, "Self, I used to pin my articles on Pinterest, anyway." Well, good for you for being scrappy -- but now those pins will look waaaay better. The biggest difference? The images will be bigger, and critical information like your meta data is displayed more prominently....
As Pinterest continues to take the social media world by storm, learning how to incorporate this marketing darling into your business can feel like an overwhelming task.
Where to begin, what to pin and how to come up with content are the typical questions I receive. The good news? More than likely, you have all of the content you need right at your fingertips! Below are five quick and easy ways to boost your business with Pinterest!...
Get inspired by 10 non-marketing boards from successful B2B and B2C brands.
Pinterest might be the fourth largest traffic driver in the world ... but it's still a pretty challenging network to use for most companies, especially for those in the B2B sector.
Maybe you've claimed your company's Pinterest profile and added a board or two with a few pins. Or maybe you haven't even dipped your toe into the network yet. Or maybe, the last three sentences you just read were nonsense to you because you're rocking Pinterest all day long. Regardless of whether you're a Pinterest pro or an excited newbie, this blog post has got something to help you do your job better. It's always good to see what your inbound marketing peers are up to so you can improve your own marketing -- so here are 13 of our favorite pinboard ideas to inspire your own Pinterest marketing....
When the social network of Pinterest first started in March of 2010, people loved it as a visual place to create their holiday “wish-list” boards. They would create boards of stuff they liked online and would never know where it would lead to.Well, these wish-lists are now becoming a true reality, as Pinterest is becoming both a true e-commerce and brick-n-mortar player!
Back in May, the photo-sharing network began allowing “rich pins”, which allows users to post detailed information about an item, such as the originating image site and product purchase information. Now they are taking it one step further by providing price drop summarized email notifications to its users for photos they pinned.
That can be huge for e-commerce, as Pinterest users spend on average of 14 minutes a session on the social network, an eternity in cyber-space!But, not only is Pinterest leading people to a business website for e-commerce purposes but according to recent data distributed by the Vision Council and Harvard Business Review, 21% of Pinterest users had bought an item in an actual store after pinning, repining or liking the item on Pinterest....
Pinterest strategy: Here's how to build a successful Pinterest presence based on your business goals.
Does your business have a clear Pinterest strategy? Have you been struggling to figure out how Pinterest could help market your business? Pinterest represents a massive opportunity for both consumer-focused and business-to-business companies.
In this article, I’ll show you three ways to build a successful Pinterest presence for your business....
...I recently posted an informal Facebook poll asking the question: Pinterest or Instagram? Like all thing internet, the results were surprisingly contentious.And guess what?
No one on my Facebook profile preferred Instagram!
That’s right. Not a single person opted for Instagram over Pinterest.
Much has been said about Pinterest’s popularity among women, so if your business or target market is oriented toward women, Pinterest should interest you (get it?).This post will explain how Pinterest can:- Benefit your business- Be used for marketing and provide some- Pinterest pro tips...
Rookie meltdowns are common on Pinterest. But when you’re using it for your business’ social media marketing, those newbie mistakes can cost...
Rookie meltdowns are common on Pinterest. But when you’re using it for your business’ social media marketing, those newbie mistakes can cost you....
I think of Pinterest as a very personalized, interactive glossy magazine. It’s a fabulous way for users to find products they love, organize them, and share them with their friends. Pinterest users buy the products they love too. In fact, 69% of online consumers who visit Pinterest have found an item they’ve purchased or wanted to purchase (this compares to only 40% on Facebook).
In this article, I outline nine of the top most common mistakes made on Pinterest - and how you can avoid them....
... Do you want to dominate on Pinterest? This Pinterest resource book is for you. It covers the best Pinterest tips and guides around — for beginners and pros alike. Each chapter contains import ant links to hand-picked blog posts that will improve your pinning skills and teach you how to get more traffic with this social network. This book will be an ongoing project. It will continue to get better as more links get added, so bookmark this page and check back often! Are you ready to get more pins, likes, and followers on Pinterest? Let’s get started!...
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Pinterest is powerful when its done properly. These tips will deliver results.